SkyDekker
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The Wright Company failed too. Guess airplanes weren't viable. -
Boeing spent the last 10 years using around 75% of its free cash flow to buy back stock. Amounts to $47 billion or so. A large part of that was the tax break handed to them by the current administration. Now within a week of a downturn they need a $50 billion handout to keep going? That is just gross mismanagement for the sole purpose of enriching the executives. Boeing needs to fail because it has been poorly managed. The same goes for the majority of US airlines. What you are seeing is that free markets alone simply don't work. Where have all those Republicans and Libertarians gone with the: "the market will sort it out" commentary? What happened to: companies and people without money just need to do better? Healthcare for your society is too expensive, but not voting in favour of giving this current administration a $500 billion slush fund with effectively zero oversight is somehow "playing politics". Unbelievable.
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Did you just not talk to her before?
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Yup Trump gave CEOs of large companies incredible taxpayer funded bonuses and is now going to use more taxpayer money to support those some companies.
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I hope you continue to have that feeling. That means we reacted in time and did the right thing.
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50% of those requiring critical care in France related to Covid are under 50. The big difference between the two is widespread testing.
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He didn't change his mind. He lied and said he always knew it was a pandemic. I would give him credit if he actually said he had changed his mind.
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Less than a month ago, the concept of a recession was ridiculed. Now we are on the edge of a great unknown, with a recession seeming the most positive outcome. The years/decades of unbalanced budgets, the seemingly unlimited spending, because the economy will just magically keep going, that is all coming home to roost. For the US, unfortunately this is happening while you are undergoing a social experiment with the worst possible president. As I have heard for a number of years: elections have consequences.
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And in response Trump sounded somewhat serious. Really looks like Fox is running the US.
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Agreed. However he and his supporters have certainly claimed all the increases for him. Only logical to then tie the decreases to him as well. Live by the sword and all...
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He just hasn't figured out how his family can make money off it.
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If we successfully flatten the curve, we purposely lengthen the duration of the pandemic.
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the 10% isn't hospitalization, the 10% is intensive care, which includes ventilator.
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Italy's experience would suggest that 10% of infected will require intensive care treatment.
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ok, sure.
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Other than Italy bashing, what is yours?
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Sorry, this is speaker's corner, no such thing allowed you hoser.
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Which is indeed what I said in my follow up comment. Clearly you didn't read the articles
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And as much as Libertarians and Conservatives all of a sudden like regulation, government intervention, non-reliance on the free market, socialist programs etc. Clearly your statement isn't even close to true.
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This is probably one of the more stupid things I have read on the topic. What you are seeing in Italy is very likely going to play out on a much larger scale in the US. If current estimates of 60% infection are correct, at a 1% mortality rate that works out to just shy of 2,000,000 deaths in the US. That does not take into account the people dying from other causes because your health care system is past maximum capacity.
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I think he was trying to say that. However, I said there was a ban. His answer was, and I quote: "Nope." In my follow up I even agreed that there are likely challenges with enforcing the ban, changing cultural norms etc. His reply to that was that I clearly didn't read the articles.....
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Not hostile. You usually take a "holier than thou" stance when it comes to following the law. Hence, your question surprised me. Are you not as principled anymore?
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What’s wrong with just following the law?
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So that article too says there is a ban in place. You keep denying there is a ban. Not sure I can boil it down any further.
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A story from 2017 isn't relevant to the fact that China has banned the trade for consumption of wildlife in 2020. In fact they have criminalized the wildlife trade for consumption. The CNN article even says that. That it will take a lot harder for cultural norms to change is a different story. So yes, the wildlife trade has been banned. The effective result of that is still to be seen.
